Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claude Cahen

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The result was keep. Sr13 06:46, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Claude Cahen

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No evidence of any notability Sefringle^Talk 01:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletions. -- Sefringle^Talk 01:32, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletions. -- Sefringle^Talk 01:35, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - if one scholarly article is all he's published, and he has done nothing else worth mentioning, then he fails WP:BIO. --Evb-wiki 01:30, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep in light of the added text and sources. --Evb-wiki 19:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete for lack of evidence pertaining to significance of published work. --Nonstopdrivel 04:42, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment There may be evidence to suggest that, not only has he written more than one article, but was a notable in his field. But it's in French.--Ispy1981 04:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- David Eppstein 05:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep: It took about two minutes of web searching to discover that Cahen is considered one of the most distinguished professors in Middle Eastern history. Peer-reviewed reviews of the book in his honor found on the web say that his career was distinguished. Probing a bit farther we find, this statement in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 1996, as the first line of the Festschrift review "This book honors the best historian of the Middle East in the twentieth century." This review provides a detailed biographical sketch of the professor, showing how his participation in the French Communist party may or may not have affected his scholarship. Anyone who can downplay his importance with "I am known all over the world, to one person in each country" is surely an important figure. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 17:18, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Claude Cahen is a very well-known scholar of Islam. His work on Dhimmi in Encyclopedia of Islam is regarded as authorative. --Aminz 18:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep per references found by Myke Cuthbert. —David Eppstein 20:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Notable historian according to the standards, no reason to delete the article.--JForget 00:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
• Question Perhaps the nom would like to inform us of the search he made by which he concluded the person was not notable? DGG 03:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

• To his defense, the article at the time of the nomination did not assert notability. It does now, and clearly pass the professor test. (Keep) -- lucasbfr ^talk 13:30, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

• Keep notable historian Misheu 08:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Aminz. --- A. L. M. 09:40, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep, and greatly expand. Cahen is more notable among historians than Joshua Prawer, on whom I wrote an article I'm trying to get to GA status. The sources I read indicated that Cahen revolutionaized Crusade studies, and was one the most important medievalists of our time. I suggest that this nomination be withdrawn. nadav (talk) 02:46, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

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